Kernel update and Google Earth

[Mark Allen Sheely]

Hi everyone,

After updating to 2.6.15-26-386, Google Earth gives me the following 
errors on startup:

do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.

When GoogleEarth does finally start up, it is unusably slow.  However,
if I reboot into version 2.6.15-25-386, then  the application runs 
without a hitch.   This
seems to suggest that something else needs updating along with the 
kernel, right? 

I did STFW, and what I found didn't make sense to me.  If anyone has any 
help to offer, I would very much appreciate it. 

Besides, helping me would be a welcome break from arguing about the 
freedom of Ubuntu :) .